I just purchased a new PC.

My OLD PC is an Aptiva with 64MB RAM and a 200 MHz Pentium.
My NEW PC is an Aptiva with 256 MB RAM and a 450 MHz Pentium II.

I compared the render times for three different scene files.  One was
with Bryce, and involved transparent and reflective objects. The other
two were in POV-Ray.  One was a human character made out of blobs of my
own creation.  The other was the LATHE2.POV file that is found in the
POVDEMO directory shipped with version 3.02

Render times in min:sec

                      OLD PC   NEW PC
Bryce scene    29:30        2:49
POV, blobs      0:29         0:11
POV, lathe2     9:01         4:16

What gives?  With Bryce, I get a 10X improvement in render time, but POV
gives me less than a 3X improvement!  Does this point to some other
"hardware" solution to a faster POV render? Could this point to a
problem with my PC: dead memory, etc.?


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Greg M. Johnson
http://members.xoom.com/gregjohn

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